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Librarian's Day Celebration at ZIET Gwalior - 21 Day Inservice Course for Librarians
by mujib rahiman 12 Aug '14

12 Aug '14

National Librarian's Day was celebrated today (12 August 2014) at ZIET Gwalior during the 21 Day Inservice Course for Librarians. Mr. S Vijaya Kumar, Deputy Commissioner and Course Director, ZIET Gwalior presided over the function and Prof. J.N Gautam, Department of Library and Information Science, Jiwaji University was the Chief Guest. After the morning assembly programme by Ranganathan Group and special programme on the life and contributions of Dr. Ranganathan by the group members, addressed the gathering and urged the participating librarians to acquire skills to provide better and efficient services according to the changing user needs and technological developments. Citing the contributions made by Dr. S. R Ranganathan, he encouraged the librarians to act as the information providers in their respective schools enhancing the teaching learning environment establishing their identity. Prof. Gautam, in his address expressed his happiness to be among the librarians from different parts of the country on such an auspicious day. Paying homage the Father of Library Science, he stressed the role played by the libraries and librarians and asked the participants to be proud of their chosen profession. He also delivered a lecture on Library Consortia and Resource Sharing after his address. Mr. Santosh Gupta, Associate Course Director and Mr. Mujib Rahiman, Resource Person and Librarian, KV Kanjikode also addressed the gathering. Mr. Suni Saini, Resource Person and Librarian KV Raiwala, Dehradun delivered the vote of thanks. M Rahiman LIBRARIAN KENDRIYA VIDYALAYA KANJIKODE WEST PALAKKAD - 678 623 KERALA, INDIA Phone (Off.): 0491 -2566317 (08:30 am to 04:00 pm) Mobile: 09946152785 (on working days after 04:00 PM) http://kvklibrary.in http://scholasticworld.blogspot.in http://kv-library.blogspot.in -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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amendments to A P Public Library Act 1960
by Prof. N. Laxman Rao. 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

DEAR FRIENDS TELANGANA has emerged as 29th State of India. On 9 th August 2014, New State level Association namely TELANGANA LIBRARY ASSOCIATION HAS been formed. This new Association would like to take up the activities relating to -- for development and strengthening of libraries and -- For strengthening and training of professionals in skill development as well as provide continuing education programs. Further. the Govt of Telangana will look for many changes including the acts. Automatically. the AP acts will come into force in this new state also. we found lot of lapses and gaps in the present Act. This Act need to be strengthened. The new state will not only change the name as Telangana Public Library Act But also some provisions that are capable of reviving the library development. In this connection, the newly formed TSLA want to take initiation and seek the advice and comments from all professionals. TSLA would like to collect the details and conduct a one day workshop and based on the recommendations of the workshop, we will present the same to Government of Telangana for their consideration. The amended Act with amendments till 1990 can be found at http://www.lawsofindia.org/pdf/andhra_pradesh/1987/1987AP13.pdf the same is also attached as a file to this message. I request all the professional friends to look into the details and help the new state to initiate the development of public libraries in the new State of Telangana. your cooperation is solicited PROF N LAXMAN RAO PRESIDENT, TSLA Prof. N.LAXMAN RAO, Member, Advisory Board, National Library, Kolkata UGC-Emeritus Fellow (2009-11) Professor in Library and Information Science, Osmania University, Hyderabad ( super-annuated). Formerly Director, UGC-Academic Staff College (2006-8). Formerly President of Indian Association of Teachers in Library and Information Science ( IATLIS) and Association of British Scholars ( AP Chapter) . ADDRESS: Plot No A-194, H No 1-8-10/1, Ravindra Nagar, Habsiguda, HYDERABAD- 500007. Mobile: 09246547599, 09493701565 email: naglaxman(a)yahoo.com, naglaxman(a)gmail.com. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Wishing you all Happy Librarians Day, In fond memory of Dr. Harish Chandra.
by Binu Thomas 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Library Professionals, On behalf of entire team at Éclat Engineering I wish you a very happy Librarian’s Day. Also we would like to dedicate this Librarian’s day to The Late Dr. Harish Chandra who has always inspired us to make and deliver innovative technology solutions for library patrons. In his fond memory we would like to adopt two potential libraries for automation based on our service offerings. Click (http://www.eclateng.com/request-demo-0#demo) to submit details about your library for the same. Best regards, -- Binu Thomas | Sr. Project Manager Eclat Engineering Pvt. Ltd. | E-212 Titanium City Center | Anandnagar Road | Ahmedabad - 380015 | INDIA M: +91-8460206292 | L: +91-79-40057878 |E:binu@eclateng.com <mailto:binu@eclateng.com?Subject=Hello> Website:www.eclateng.com <http://www.remotexs.in> -- This email (including any file attachments) is for the use of intended recipient(s) only. If you have received this message in error, please notify the sender and delete it. Éclat Engg Pvt. Ltd. accepts no liability for loss or damage caused by software viruses and you are advised to carry out a virus check on any attachments contained in this message. -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians Day by MyLISA Mysore
by Sunil MV 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Library Professionals, Mysore Librarians and Information Scientists Association (MyLISA) is celebrating the Librarians’ Day in a unique way. As a reach out activity of this year the members of MyLISA visit schools and other institutions on August 12 and give a motivational lecture on ‘Reading habits’ and ‘Library use’. The libraries identified / covered under this programme are: "St. Joseph School, Vijayanagar", "Taralabalu Math School, T.K. Layout", "Harividyalaya High School, Bogadi", "Gangothri School , Manasagangtri", "Sarada Vilas College, Krishnamurthy Puram", "City Central Library, Sayyaji Rao Road", “Good Shepard High School, JP Nagar”, "Sadhvidya High School, Ramavilas Road", “Ideal Jawa Rotary School, JL Road” and other institutions. A manual on ‘Guide to setting up an open library in schools’ prepared exclusively for the day prepared by Ms. Usha Mukunda, Bangalore will also be circulated among these schools on August 12. More updates on the happenings will reach you in my next mail. This is for your kind information. Regards, Dr. Sunil M.V. Librarian Shri Dharmasthala Manjunatheshwara Institute for Management Development (SDMIMD) No. 1, Chamundi Hill Main Road, Siddharthanagar Post, Mysore - 570 011, INDIA Mobile: 998639832 | Telephone: 0821-2429722 Extn: 3006 * Please consider your environmental responsibility before printing this e-mail* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarian's Day Program - a reminder
by Meera B. M. 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Karnataka State Library Association in collaboration with The Sarada Ranganathan Endowment for Library Science, The Ranganathan Centre for Information Studies, ISKO (India Chapter), Informatics (I) Ltd and Raman Research Institute Cordially invites you To Celebrate 122nd birth anniversary of Dr S R Ranganathan and Librarian’s Day on 12th August, 2014 Venue: Raman Research Institute, C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivnagar Bangalore - 560080 Contact Ph No: Mr. Manjunath - 9449033923 Come and participate in the programme to know more about eBooks & tablets and the ways to adopt tablets in library and information centres. PROGRAMME CHAIR: Prof. V G Talwar, Vice Chancellor, REVA University KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. Shalini R Urs, University of Mysore Launch of SRELS Journal of Information Management Online Archive: Prof I K Ravichandra Rao, Visiting Scientist, Centre for knowledge analytics and ontological engineering, PESIT, Bangalore PANEL DISCUSSION: Dr I R N Gowdar, Visiting Professor Cum Library Adviser, Bangalore University Library, Dr. Satish Tiwary, Head, Intellectual Property, Airbus, India (Reader perspective) Haja Sheriff, Co‐Founder & Partner at Prost Innovation Labs, Former Country Director Kobo Inc, (Industry Perspective) Ananda T Byrappa, Global Leader, Knowledge Center, GE John F Technology Center (LIS Perspective) Arnab Pal, Research Fellow, Raman Research Institute (Student Perspective) Pogramme: Registration (Free) : 4 PM “Tour of C V Raman Museum” - 4.15 PM to 4.45 PM - Do not Miss Invocation: 5 PM Welcome address by Mr. I H Jahagirdar, Secretary, KALA Release of the poster to mark the occasion Librarians Day: 5.15 PM Launch of SRELS Journal of Information Management Online Archive: 5.30 P M Address By Program Chair: 5.45 PM Key note Address: 6.00 PM Panel discussion: 6.30 PM to 7.30 PM Vote of thanks by Dr M V Sunil, Joint Secretary, KALA: 7.30 PM Followed by Dinner -- Dr B M Meera Librarian Raman Research Institute C V Raman Avenue, Sadashivanagar P O Bangalore 560 080 Ph: 09480836045 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Article request
by janet lobo 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear sir/Madam, The following articles are required to one of my library user. If available in your Library , please forward to me. 1.Norazah Mohd Suki, Jennifer Chiam Chwee Lian, Norbayah Mohd Suki, (2011) "Do patients' perceptions exceed their expectations in private healthcare settings?", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 24 Iss: 1, pp.42 - 56. 2.Mark J. Kay, (2007) "Healthcare marketing: what is salient?", International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, Vol. 1 Iss: 3, pp.247 – 263. 3.Aditi Naidu, (2009) "Factors affecting patient satisfaction and healthcare quality", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 22 Iss: 4, pp.366 - 381 Thanking you Yours sincerely, Dr Janet Dotty Lobo Librarian Fr Muller Central Library Mangalore -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk
by Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Pavan, Your point is valid and I appreciate this ! While planning for the Kiosk we had the following things in our mind, hence we thought that Kiosk would be better than keeping a normal PC. · To make circulation activities library staff independent- Unmanned · To save the time of Library staff & users (waiting at the circulation counter). · To provide a solution which is cost effective or at least a reasonable one. · To avoid errors in the entries that may occur when done manually (Users/staff)- This Kiosk has RFID reader for reading user’s card and barcode reader for reading book barcode labels. · To provide the finest user experience-similar to what we can see with Bank ATMs or kiosks in shopping malls etc · To provide proof of issue/return of books: While users taking the book out of the library this Kiosk generates a small check-out slip similar to what we get in ATMs. Further users show/submit this to the security at the gate/exit as a proof of issue out book – Kiosk has POS printer. · To make the transactions at kiosk secure, especially for the books which are returned- If you don’t have a Kiosk with drop-in box, then there is a chance of missing of returned books. This also make users to feel confident that the book they returned is safe in the Kiosk till the library staff takes it out & confirms. Other advantages are: · Kiosk has two separate drop-in slots for books & CDs · This Kiosk has a touch screen monitor. · This Kiosk has a metallic trackball with keyboard and also has virtual Keypad. · This Kiosk also comes with the speaker for user’s instruction/information. · On this NewGenLib Touch application provides options like , check-out, check-in, renew, search OPAC, reserve etc. Also provide secure login either through user cards or with login ID & password. Though keeping a single computer helps but will not provide the same advantages/benefits and user experience what we get from the “User Self service Kiosk”. However I feel that this “Kiosk” is not an ultimate solution, it should be continuously improved/upgraded. We all (LIS community) need to work together, influence the manufacturers and software developers to make more useful and effective technologies or tools available at the low/affordable cost for all type of libraries. Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 From: Pawan Agrawal [mailto:pawanagrawal4u4u@gmail.com] Sent: Saturday, August 09, 2014 2:18 PM To: Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) Subject: Re: [LIS-Forum] Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk Sir, Why kiosk is used.. what if we use a simple computer for the same... HOW kiosk is more useful than a pc.... On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 4:06 PM, Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) <Emmanuel.EC(a)in.bosch.com<mailto:Emmanuel.EC@in.bosch.com>> wrote: Dear All, Electronic media is omnipresent & omnipotent now and there is no escape from this, we can only ignore this at our own peril. Libraries have to work on a strategy to be competitive, relevant in this electronic/information age. As internet, mobiles, e-book readers, tabs have given more content in users hand. This leading to change in user's reading habits and user experience(rich content) and taking away some library users from the libraries. While welcoming the electronic media as our future, some of us may ask ourselves a question as to what to do with our print media that we already have ? as the good number of users (Gen X) still demand printed books. And the younger generation (Gen Y) /tech savvy users prefers electronic resources. The best solution could be to balance both, the printed collection & electronic media. If so, how to achieve this with the same limited staff ? There could be several approaches to handle this situation, but I am sharing what we tried at our corporate library. We decided to retain and continue with the print media & its related services and also to add electronic media (e-books to start with)/electronic media based information services. This we had to do with the limited staff or with no additional staff. We had to save the time of our team from the mundane activities and utilize the saved time in handling e-resources. We achieved this through complete library automation, in simple words: 1. We put barcode labels to the library resources 2. Installed a barcode based "User self service Kiosk" (with book drop-in box) 3. Installed "NewGenLib Touch application" on this Kiosk. It is less expensive as each label costs less than a rupee and the approx cost of a Kiosk is less than Rs. 1.5 lacs- cost may increase based on the features that you want to have in kiosk and the "NewGenLib Touch Application" is open source( free of cost). Now user themselves check-in & check-out the books, search OPAC on Kiosk and our team free from routine activities and is involving themselves in electronic newsletter designing, information/database search, e-books procurement and related activities. RFID based kiosk is also one option but it is expensive and not affordable for the large number of libraries in India. If you have similar experience or better ideas on this, then please share with all (LIS community) so that we can learn from each other's best practices. Thank you ! Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/pipermail/lis-forum/attachments/20140808/3bfa40c4…> _______________________________________________ LIS-Forum mailing list LIS-Forum(a)ncsi.iisc.ernet.in<mailto:LIS-Forum@ncsi.iisc.ernet.in> http://ncsi.iisc.ernet.in/mailman/listinfo/lis-forum -- Thanks and Regards ------- Join hands, Join eLibrarian https://sites.google.com/site/theelibrarians/ ------- Pawan R. Agrawal Registered freelancer: NewGenLib Academic Councellor: IGNOU and BAOU Assistant Librarian Learning Resource Centre (Library) Silvassa College Govt. Arts, Commerce and Science College Naroli-Silvassa U.T. of Dadra and Nagar Haveli INDIA- 396235 Ph. 9376135580, 9904828387 http://www.pragrawal.wordpress.com Skype ID: pawanagrawal4u4u -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Librarians Day Celebrations
by SARADA RANGANATHAN ENDOWMENT FOR LIBRARY SCIENCE 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Dear Moderator : Please arrange to announce the following for the benefit of LIS colleagues. SRELS, Bangalore --- SRELS and RCIS invites to you to participate in : - Celebration of Librarian’s Day - Release of Online Archives of 50 years of SRELS Journal of Information Management - Panel Discussion on Books and Tablets Organized by KALA, RRI, SRELS, RCIS, ISKO(India Chapter) and Informatics (India) Ltd., On 12th August 2014 from 4.00 PM onwards at Raman Research Institute, Sadashivanagar, Bangalore 560080 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Kerala pay revision 2014(PRC2014) preparing proposals
by pradeep 11 Aug '14

11 Aug '14

Sir, Kerala Govt. constituted a Pay revision Commission(PRC 2014) for govt. employees. The committee invited suggestions from individuals and associations. I am requesting you to kindly give your (library staff in Kerala state) valuable suggestions for preparing proposal about University library system, please reply through email at the earliest. -- *Pradeep P. A, MLISc.,MPhil,NET* *Librarian i/cCollege of Dairy Science & Technology Mannuthy, Thrissur09995087645* -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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Library Automation- User Self Service Kiosk
by Emmanuel E (RBEI/ETI) 10 Aug '14

10 Aug '14

Dear All, Electronic media is omnipresent & omnipotent now and there is no escape from this, we can only ignore this at our own peril. Libraries have to work on a strategy to be competitive, relevant in this electronic/information age. As internet, mobiles, e-book readers, tabs have given more content in users hand. This leading to change in user's reading habits and user experience(rich content) and taking away some library users from the libraries. While welcoming the electronic media as our future, some of us may ask ourselves a question as to what to do with our print media that we already have ? as the good number of users (Gen X) still demand printed books. And the younger generation (Gen Y) /tech savvy users prefers electronic resources. The best solution could be to balance both, the printed collection & electronic media. If so, how to achieve this with the same limited staff ? There could be several approaches to handle this situation, but I am sharing what we tried at our corporate library. We decided to retain and continue with the print media & its related services and also to add electronic media (e-books to start with)/electronic media based information services. This we had to do with the limited staff or with no additional staff. We had to save the time of our team from the mundane activities and utilize the saved time in handling e-resources. We achieved this through complete library automation, in simple words: 1. We put barcode labels to the library resources 2. Installed a barcode based "User self service Kiosk" (with book drop-in box) 3. Installed "NewGenLib Touch application" on this Kiosk. It is less expensive as each label costs less than a rupee and the approx cost of a Kiosk is less than Rs. 1.5 lacs- cost may increase based on the features that you want to have in kiosk and the "NewGenLib Touch Application" is open source( free of cost). Now user themselves check-in & check-out the books, search OPAC on Kiosk and our team free from routine activities and is involving themselves in electronic newsletter designing, information/database search, e-books procurement and related activities. RFID based kiosk is also one option but it is expensive and not affordable for the large number of libraries in India. If you have similar experience or better ideas on this, then please share with all (LIS community) so that we can learn from each other's best practices. Thank you ! Regards Emmanuel Deputy Manager K-Centre & Information Services, Robert Bosch Engineering and Business solutions Ltd, #123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramanagala, Bangalore-560095, INDIA Tel: 918061013229 / Mobile: 09886677094 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean.

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